Quotes About Dignity

when people didn't treat you like you were human, there was no possibility of trust or engagement.

David Thomas: What do you think is the worst crime that could possibly be committed? What is the crime that offends you most? David Bowie: Seeing a man humble himself in his capacity as a worker to somebody else, and having to have that accepted as a given situation.

We have earned our peace. It is, by now, more precious than honor, or even pity.

If you're going to maintain any kind of self-respect, you're going to have to keep secrets from yourself.

Your Highness could never be silly,' Adara told her. Ce'Nedra lifted her chin. 'Oh yes I can,' she declared. 'I've got as much right to make a fool of myself in public as anyone else.

It is better that you die than that you put a stain upon your soul.

Te occidere possunt sed te edere non pussunt nefas est

The dignity of a man risen by will from the ashes of Withdrawal and now on the upswing and with places to go and potentially considerate Canadians to see.

Die Integrität meines Schlafs ist für alle Zeit kompromittiert, Sir.

The goose-step has always seemed to me to be an outlandish exhibition of the human being in his most undignified and stupid state.

I can endure poverty but not shame-neglect but not insult,and insult from you..

Lower himself! says the lady, with a toss of her head. No man lowers himself by pursuing an honest calling. No man!

If a person is too poor to keep a servant, though ever so elegant, he must sweep his own rooms:

Tengo por costumbre no insultar. Respetar a los adversarios engrandece las propias opiniones. En cambio el que disminuye al adversario, disminuye la importancia de su propia opinión ¿Qué gracia tendría tener la razón contra unos necios? lo grande es tener la razón contra gente seria, brillante, pero equivocada.

If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. Nor hath Love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.

Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it.

I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.

He is as full of valor as of kindness. Princely in both.

Mine honor is my life; both grow in one. Take honor from me, and my life is done.

So well thy words become thee as thy wounds, They smack of honor both.

Use every man according to his desert and who should 'scape whipping? Use them after your own honor and dignity, the less they deserve ... the more merit in your bounty.

Use them after your own honour and dignity; the less they deserve, the more merit in your bounty. - Hamlet to Polonius

In thy face I see the map of honour, truth and loyalty.